Media Curmudgeon

I love you Charlie but this is the problem of the Democratic Party in a single paragraph.


The Democratic party has a 10% advantage over the Republicans and although it is only 7 points short of a majority has only won 5 of 14 presidential elections in my lifetime. It is an extraordinary level of failure which almost appears to be something that one would have to work hard to do. The only way it was possible is that the party gave up the "uneducated" white people you refer to here.

This is the audience the Democratic Party lost and your attitude (and that of Adlai Stevenson, John Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, and McGovern) is the reason we lost it.

Smart, rich educated people like Roosevelt and Kennedy joined the democratic party of because they were committed to the Democratic principles of the party that supported unions, farmers, and the dispossessed. They were not the party. Without the support of the real dispossessed in this country we wont take back the White House. Blacks and suburban liberals are not the majority of the dispossessed Americans. Its the workers in the mid west and south who lost their jobs to a misguided trade and economic policy. These are the people who put their trust in America. These are the people who fight in our wars, give to the United Way, go to church on Sunday and hope for a better life for their children. They are the people of average income and intelligence, that make up the majority. They are the mean but they are not naturally mean people.

To class them as "uneducated" may be accurate but it is neither relevant or their fault.

What's worse is they are the people who left the democratic party and wont come back to a party who thinks their belief in the 2nd amendment and their belief in God are nothing more than the reaction of ignorant people to economic frustration. They are the people who will decide the election.

We all know how many delegates Obama needs to get the nomination but somehow you have forgotten that to win the election he needs 45,000,000 more votes and most of them are these uneducated, people who do not like being made fun of and patronized.

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